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Leaves Of Grass

A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

By: Walt Whitman

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Paperback | 1 January 1983

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One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Leaves Of Grass is his one book. First published in 1855 with only twelve poems, it was greeted by Ralph Waldo Emerson as "the wonderful gift . . . the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." Over the course of Whitman''s life, the book reappeared in many versions, expanded and transformed as the author''s experiences and the nation''s history changed and grew. Whitman''s ambition was to creates something uniquely American. In that he succeeded. His poems have been woven into the very fabric of the American character. From his solemn masterpieces "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom''d" and "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" to the joyous freedom of "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," and "Song of the Open Road," Whitman''s work lives on, an inspiration to the poets of later generations.

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"Whitman's best poems have that permanent quality of being freshly painted, of not being dulled by the varnish of the years." --Malcolm Cowley

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Introduction	p. xvii
Inscriptions
One's-Self I Sing	p. 1
As I Ponder'd in Silence	p. 1
In Cabin'd Ships at Sea	p. 2
To Foreign Lands	p. 3
To a Historian	p. 3
To Thee Old Cause	p. 3
Eidolons	p. 4
For Him I Sing	p. 6
When I Read the Book	p. 6
Beginning My Studies	p. 7
Beginners	p. 7
To The States	p. 7
On Journeys through the States	p. 7
To a Certain Cantatrice	p. 8
Me Imperturbe	p. 8
Savantism	p. 8
The Ship Starting	p. 9
I Hear America Singing	p. 9
What Place Is Besieged?	p. 9
Still Though the One I Sing	p. 10
Shut Not Your Doors	p. 10
Poets to Come	p. 10
To You	p. 10
Thou Reader	p. 11
Starting from Paumanok	p. 11
Song of Myself	p. 22
Children of Adam
To the Garden the World	p. 74
From Pent-up Aching Rivers	p. 74
I Sing the Body Electric	p. 76
A Woman Waits for Me	p. 83
Spontaneous Me	p. 85
One Hour to Madness and Joy	p. 87
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd	p. 87
Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals	p. 88
We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd	p. 88
O Hymen! O Hymenee!	p. 89
I Am He that Aches with Love	p. 89
Native Moments	p. 89
Once I Pass'd through a Populous City	p. 90
I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ	p. 90
Facing West from California's Shores	p. 90
As Adam Early in the Morning	p. 91
Calamus
In Paths Untrodden	p. 92
Scented Herbage of My Breast	p. 92
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand	p. 94
For You O Democracy	p. 95
These I Singing in Spring	p. 96
Not Heaving from My Ribb'd Breast Only	p. 97
Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances	p. 97
The Base of All Metaphysics	p. 98
Recorders Ages Hence	p. 99
When I Heard at the Close of the Day	p. 99
Are You the New Person Drawn toward Me?	p. 100
Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone	p. 100
Not Heat Flames up and Consumes	p. 101
Trickle Drops	p. 101
City of Orgies	p. 102
Behold This Swarthy Face	p. 102
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing	p. 102
To a Stranger	p. 103
This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful	p. 103
I Hear It Was Charged against Me	p. 104
The Prairie-Grass Dividing	p. 104
When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame	p. 105
We Two Boys Together Clinging	p. 105
A Promise to California	p. 105
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me	p. 106
No Labor-Saving Machine	p. 106
A Glimpse	p. 106
A Leaf for Hand in Hand	p. 106
Earth, My Likeness	p. 107
I Dream'd in a Dream	p. 107
What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?	p. 107
To the East and to the West	p. 107
Sometimes with One I Love	p. 108
To a Western Boy	p. 108
Fast-Anchor'd Eternal O Love!	p. 108
Among the Multitude	p. 108
O You Whom I Often and Silently Come	p. 109
That Shadow My Likeness	p. 109
Full of Life Now	p. 109
Salut au Monde!	p. 109
Song of the Open Road	p. 119
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry	p. 128
Song of the Answerer	p. 133
Our Old Feuillage	p. 137
A Song of Joys	p. 142
Song of the Broad-Axe	p. 148
Song of the Exposition	p. 158
Song of the Redwood-Tree	p. 167
A Song for Occupations	p. 170
A Song of the Rolling Earth	p. 177
Youth, Day, Old Age and Night	p. 182
Birds of Passage
Song of the Universal	p. 183
Pioneers! O Pioneers!	p. 185
To You	p. 188
France, The 18th Year of these States	p. 190
Myself and Mine	p. 191
Year of Meteors (1859-60)	p. 193
With Antecedents	p. 194
A Broadway Pageant	p. 196
Sea-Drift
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking	p. 200
As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life	p. 205
Tears	p. 208
To the Man-of-War-Bird	p. 208
Aboard at a Ship's Helm	p. 209
On the Beach at Night	p. 209
The World below the Brine	p. 210
On the Beach at Night Alone	p. 211
Song for All Seas, All Ships	p. 211
Patroling Barnegat	p. 212
After the Sea-Ship	p. 213
By the Roadside
A Boston Ballad--1854	p. 214
Europe, The 72d and 73d Years of These States	p. 216
A Hand-Mirror	p. 217
Gods	p. 217
Germs	p. 218
Thoughts	p. 218
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer	p. 219
Perfections	p. 219
O Me! O Life!	p. 219
To a President	p. 220
I Sit and Look Out	p. 220
To Rich Givers	p. 220
The Dalliance of the Eagles	p. 221
Roaming in Thought	p. 221
A Farm Picture	p. 221
A Child's Amaze	p. 221
The Runner	p. 222
Beautiful Women	p. 222
Mother and Babe	p. 222
Thought	p. 222
Visor'd	p. 222
Thought	p. 222
Gliding o'er All	p. 223
Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour	p. 223
Thought	p. 223
To Old Age	p. 223
Locations and Times	p. 223
Offerings	p. 223
To the States, To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad	p. 224
Drum-Taps
First O Songs for a Prelude	p. 225
Eighteen Sixty-One	p. 227
Beat! Beat! Drums!	p. 228
From Paumanok Starting I Fly like a Bird	p. 228
Song of the Banner at Daybreak	p. 229
Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps	p. 235
Virginia--The West	p. 237
City of Ships	p. 237
The Centenarian's Story	p. 238
Cavalry Crossing a Ford	p. 242
Bivouac on a Mountain Side	p. 242
An Army Corps on the March	p. 242
By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame	p. 243
Come Up from the Fields Father	p. 243
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night	p. 245
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown	p. 246
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim	p. 247
As Toilsome I wander'd Virginia's Woods	p. 247
Not the Pilot	p. 248
Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me	p. 248
The Wound-Dresser	p. 248
Long, Too Long America	p. 251
Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun	p. 251
Dirge for Two Veterans	p. 253
Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice	p. 254
I Saw Old General at Bay	p. 255
The Artilleryman's Vision	p. 255
Ethiopia Saluting the Colors	p. 256
Not Youth Pertains to Me	p. 257
Race of Veterans	p. 257
World Take Good Notice	p. 257
O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy	p. 258
Look Down Fair Moon	p. 258
Reconciliation	p. 258
How Solemn as One by One	p. 258
As I Lay with My head in Your Lap Camerado	p. 259
Delicate Cluster	p. 259
To a Certain Civilian	p. 260
Lo, Victress on the Peaks	p. 260
Spirit Whose Work Is Done	p. 260
Adieu to a Soldier	p. 261
Turn O Libertad	p. 262
To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod	p. 262
Memories Of President Lincoln
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd	p. 264
O Captain! My Captain!	p. 271
Hush'd Be the Camps To-day	p. 272
This Dust Was Once the Man	p. 272
By Blue Ontario's Shore	p. 273
Reversals	p. 286
Autumn Rivulets
As Consequent, Etc.	p. 287
The Return of the Heroes	p. 288
There Was a Child Went Forth	p. 292
Old Ireland	p. 294
The City Dead-House	p. 295
This Compost	p. 296
To a Foil'd European Revolutionaire	p. 297
Unnamed Lands	p. 299
Song of Prudence	p. 300
The Singer in the Prison	p. 303
Warble for Lilac-Time	p. 304
Outlines for a Tomb	p. 305
Out from Behind This Mask	p. 307
Vocalism	p. 308
To Him That Was Crucified	p. 309
You Felons on Trial in Courts	p. 310
Laws for Creations	p. 310
To a Common Prostitute	p. 311
I Was Looking a Long While	p. 311
Thought	p. 312
Miracles	p. 312
Sparkles from the Wheel	p. 313
To a Pupil	p. 314
Unfolded Out of the Folds	p. 314
What Am I After All	p. 315
Kosmos	p. 315
Others May Praise What They Like	p. 316
Who Learns My Lesson Complete?	p. 316
Tests	p. 317
The Torch	p. 317
O Star of France (1870-71)	p. 318
The Ox-Tamer	p. 319
An Old Man's Thought of School	p. 320
Wandering at Morn	p. 321
Italian Music in Dakota	p. 321
With All Thy Gifts	p. 322
My Picture-Gallery	p. 322
The Prairie States	p. 322
Proud Music of the Storm	p. 323
Passage to India	p. 328
Prayer of Columbus	p. 336
The Sleepers	p. 338
Transpositions	p. 346
To Think of Time	p. 346
Whispers Of Heavenly Death
Darest Thou Now O Soul	p. 352
Whispers of Heavenly Death	p. 352
Chanting the Square Deific	p. 353
Of Him I Love Day and Night	p. 355
Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours	p. 355
As If a Phantom Caress'd Me	p. 356
Assurances	p. 356
Quicksand Years	p. 357
That Music Always Round Me	p. 357
What Ship Puzzled at Sea	p. 358
A Noiseless Patient Spider	p. 358
O Living Always, Always Dying	p. 358
To One Shortly to Die	p. 359
Night on the Prairies	p. 359
Thought	p. 360
The Last Invocation	p. 361
As I Watch'd the Ploughman Ploughing	p. 361
Pensive and Faltering	p. 361
Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood	p. 361
A Paumanok Picture	p. 367
From Noon To Starry Night
Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling	p. 368
Faces	p. 369
The Mystic Trumpeter	p. 372
To a Locomotive in Winter	p. 375
O Magnet-South	p. 376
Mannahatta	p. 377
All Is Truth	p. 378
A Riddle Song	p. 379
Excelsior	p. 380
Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats	p. 380
Thoughts	p. 381
Mediums	p. 381
Weave In, My Hardy Life	p. 382
Spain, 1873-74	p. 382
By Broad Potomac's Shore	p. 383
From Far Dakota's Canons	p. 383
Old War-Dreams	p. 384
Thick-Sprinkled Bunting	p. 385
What Best I See in Thee	p. 385
Spirit That Form'd This Scene	p. 386
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days	p. 386
A Clear Midnight	p. 387
Songs of Parting
As the Time Draws Nigh	p. 388
Years of the Modern	p. 388
Ashes of Soldiers	p. 389
Thoughts	p. 391
Song at Sunset	p. 392
As at Thy Portals Also Death	p. 395
My Legacy	p. 395
Pensive on Her Dead Gazing	p. 395
Camps of Green	p. 396
The Sobbing of the Bells	p. 397
As They Draw to a Close	p. 397
Joy, Shipmate, Joy!	p. 398
The Untold Want	p. 398
Portals	p. 398
These Carols	p. 398
Now Finale to the Shore	p. 399
So Long!	p. 399
Sands at Seventy
Mannahatta	p. 402
Paumanok	p. 402
From Montauk Point	p. 402
To Those Who've Fail'd	p. 402
A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine	p. 403
The Bravest Soldiers	p. 403
A Font of Type	p. 403
As I Sit Writing Here	p. 403
My Canary Bird	p. 404
Queries to My Seventieth Year	p. 404
The Wallabout Martyrs	p. 404
The First Dandelion	p. 404
America	p. 405
Memories	p. 405
To-day and Thee	p. 405
After the Dazzle of Day	p. 405
Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809	p. 405
Out of May's Shows Selected	p. 406
Halcyon Days	p. 406
Fancies at Navesink	p. 406
Election Day, November, 1884	p. 409
With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!	p. 409
Death of General Grant	p. 410
Red Jacket (from Aloft)	p. 411
Washington's Monument, February, 1885	p. 411
Of That Blithe Throat of Thine	p. 412
Broadway	p. 412
To Get the Final Lilt of Songs	p. 412
Old Salt Kossabone	p. 413
The Dead Tenor	p. 413
Continuities	p. 414
Yonnondio	p. 414
Life	p. 415
"Going Somewhere"	p. 415
Small the Theme of My Chant	p. 415
True Conquerors	p. 416
The United States to Old World Critics	p. 416
The Calming Thought of All	p. 416
Thanks in Old Age	p. 417
Life and Death	p. 417
The Voice of the Rain	p. 417
Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here	p. 418
While Not the Past Forgetting	p. 418
The Dying Veteran	p. 419
Stronger Lessons	p. 419
A Prairie Sunset	p. 419
Twenty Years	p. 420
Orange Buds by Mail from Florida	p. 420
Twilight	p. 421
You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me	p. 421
Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone	p. 421
The Dead Emperor	p. 421
As the Greek's Signal Flame	p. 422
The Dismantled Ship	p. 422
Now Precedent Songs, Farewell	p. 422
An Evening Lull	p. 423
Old Age's Lambent Peaks	p. 423
After the Supper and Talk	p. 423
Good-Bye My Fancy
Preface Note to 2d Annex	p. 425
Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!	p. 426
Lingering Last Drops	p. 427
Good-Bye my Fancy	p. 427
On, On the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!	p. 427
My 71st Year	p. 428
Apparitions	p. 428
The Pallid Wreath	p. 428
An Ended Day	p. 429
Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's	p. 429
To the Pending Year	p. 429
Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher	p. 430
Long, Long Hence	p. 430
Bravo, Paris Exposition!	p. 431
Interpolation Sounds	p. 431
To the Sun-set Breeze	p. 432
Old Chants	p. 432
A Christmas Greeting	p. 433
Sounds of the Winter	p. 434
A Twilight Song	p. 434
When the Full-Grown Poet Came	p. 435
Osceola	p. 435
A Voice from Death	p. 436
A Persian Lesson	p. 437
The Commonplace	p. 438
"The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete"	p. 438
Mirages	p. 438
L. of G.'s Purport	p. 439
The Unexpress'd	p. 440
Grand Is the Seen	p. 440
Unseen Buds	p. 440
Good-Bye my Fancy!	p. 441
A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads	p. 442
Glossary	p. 457
Bibliography	p. 459
Index of Titles and First Lines	p. 461
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